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Funeral in Berlin

It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …

6.4(171)19661h 42m4

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
German
Part of Harry Palmer Collection · 5 films
  • berlin, germany
  • england
  • berlin wall
  • spy
  • cold war
  • secret intelligence service
  • defection
  • swinging 60s
  • east germany
  • harry palmer

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Guy Hamilton

Writers

Evan Jones

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical22 Dec 1966
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical23 Feb 1967
    • PhysicalPGVHS4 Feb 1988
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical169 Mar 1967
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1422 Dec 1966

Frequently asked questions

Funeral in Berlin was released on 22 December 1966.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/29/2022

    6/10

    Michael Caine reprises his role as the rather curmudgeonly, stoic, "Harry Palmer" in this rather lacklustre tale of Cold War espionage. He is given the task of travelling to East Berlin to help facilitate the defection of "Col. Stok" (the scene-stealing Oskar Homolka), who has for years been in charge of stopping folks escaping from the East heading West - but with increasingly limited success! Pretty quickly, "Palme…

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    SmarterLabels

    7/9/2023

    This almost shocked me. I have watched this film a number of times over the years, and really considered it a somewhat poorer sequel to the exploits of Harry Palmer as first seen in The Ipcress File. Well, I watched it again one day after when I was well rested (and a little bit bored). The thing is that I was concentrating on every little event or nuance that I was picking up. And lo and behold a whole new level…

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